Professor Blanchard, after service in the Royal Canadian Navy, graduated in physics from Dalhousie and in geophysics from University of Toronto. He spent a few years in Arizona with Professor A. A. Brant where he gained a good knowledge of exploration geophysics, later put to good use in the discovery of important deposits of limestone (for cement) and salt in Nova Scotia. Of even greater scientific interest has been his seismic exploration of the crust off the Atlantic Provinces. He has succeeded in mapping the depth to Mohorovicic Discontinuity at the continental margin, a problem often attempted but seldom achieved.

Tom Bloom works in complex analysis in several variables. His work on the geometry of pseudo-convex boundaries in Cn was instrumental in the better understanding of the 2-Neumann problem. His work on approximation theory established Kergin's interpolation as the correct generalization of Lagrange's interpolation from one to several variables. His articles are regularly cited. He is internationally well known as can be seen by his numerous invitations to give talks in Canada, in the United States and in Europe. As chairman of the mathematics department of the University of Toronto he helped to improve the atmosphere for mathematical research.

Professor Diethard Bohme is internationally recognized as a distinguished scholar and pioneer with an outstanding record of achievement in scientific research. He has made seminal contributions in physical organic chemistry, flame-ion chemistry, chemistry in the earth's ionosphere, astrochemistry, and the chemistry and metal-ion chemistry of large carbon clusters. His many scholarly articles, reviews and invited lectures at learned institutions have had a significant impact in three disciplines: chemistry, physics and astronomy. Professor Bohme's research achievements have been recognized often, both nationally and internationally: he has received the Society's Rutherford Memorial Medal in Chemistry (1981), an Alexander von Humboldt Prize (1990/91) and a Killam Research Fellowship (1991/93). In 1998 Professor Bohme was the recipient of the John C. Polanyi Award in Physical Chemistry from the Canadian Society for Chemistry.

Pierre Bois a contribué par des observations importantes à plusieurs champs de la médecine expérimentale et, en particulier, à celui de l'endocrinologie. Ses premières recherches portèrent sur les multiples interactions entre glucocorticoïdes et minéralocorticoïdes, et sur les activités pharmacologiques des corticoïdes halogénés qui avaient été synthésisés alors qu'il était candidat au doctorat. Plus tard, il a fait des recherches très intéressantes sur des sujets aussi variés que le lathyrisme, la pharmacologie de la sérotonine, la dystrophie musculaire et la déficience en magnésium. C'est au cours de ces dernières investigations qu'il a fait la découverte pour laquelle il est le mieux connu à travers le monde, soit l'induction de thymome par carence en magnésium.

John Richard Bond, Professor in the Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics at the University of Toronto and Fellow of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, is distinguished for broad and fundamental contributions to physical cosmology and other areas of astrophysics. He has led the development of the theory of Gaussian random fields as a tool for the study of structure formation in the Universe. He has created powerful theoretical machinery for interpreting observations of fluctuations in the cosmic background radiation, the most powerful cosmological probe to emerge in the last decade. He has also made seminal contributions to our understanding of supermassive objects, dark matter, the intergalactic medium, and the infrared background radiation.

Jonathan Borwein is a mathematician of great versatility and range. He has contributed to classical and modern analysis, optimization, computational mathematics and number theory. One of his accomplishments is the Borwein-Preiss Smooth Variational Principle which has proved to be fundamental for the study of differentiability of functions on Banach spaces. He has been a pioneer in the study of nonsmooth analysis and generalized gradients. In addition, he has made some fascinating contributions to the study of computational algorithms. For instance, with his brother, Peter Borwein, he discovered a cubic analogue of the arithmetic-geometric mean iteration of Gauss and Legendre.

Dr. Bourns has made many important contributions to chemistry and has acquired an international reputation in the field of physical-organic chemistry. He was one of the first in Canada to apply kinetic and equilibrium isotope effects in the elucidation of reaction mechanisms and is an international authority in this field. His publications are of a fundamental nature and represent important contributions to our understanding of organic reactions. He has been a regular participant in the annual symposium on reaction mechanisms held by the Organic Section of the American Chemical Society. In 1959-60 he was Vice-Chairman of the Gordon Research Conference on 'The Chemistry and Physics of Isotopes' and has been elected Chairman for the 1961-62 conference. Recently he was invited to convene and chair the symposium on physical organic chemistry to be held in June 1961 by the Royal Society of Canada. He receives many invitations to speak about his current researches from both Canadian and American institutions. Since he became Dean of the Graduate Faculty at McMaster University in 1957, he has not only made important research contributions of his own but has done much to encourage research in other departments of the university. He is a particularly strong candidate for fellowship in the Royal Society of Canada.

Tony Bowen is a world leader in quantitative studies of nearshore hydrodynamics and sediment transport. In particular, his comprehensive theoretical, laboratory and field studies have demonstrated the dominant role of edge waves in generating previously unexplained features such as rip currents, beach cusps and even the basic shape of beaches. His influence is international, through his own publications and lectures and his inspiration of former students and post-doctoral fellows around the world who are continuing their studies of nearshore processes. His work is of great scientific interest, but also leads to improved answers in problems of coastal management.

David W. Boyd is a versatile mathematician whose main mathematical contributions are in real analysis and number theory. First, in his thesis Boyd characterized all rearrangement invariant subspaces of the space of measurable functions on the line on which the Hilbert transform is bounded. Lately Boyd showed that Salem's construction of Salem numbers yields all Salem numbers. Boyd, a mathematician with an international reputation richly deserves to be elected to a Fellowship of the Royal Society of Canada.

Brand has established an international reputation for his contributions to our knowledge of the excited states of molecules through studies of their optical spectra. One of his early successes involved the recognition that formaldehyde is non-planar in its first excited state. His analysis of the spectra of other aldehydes and of aromatic molecules has given information on the structures of these molecules in excited states. His recent work in unravelling the complex rotational structure in the spectra of C10_, NO_ and SO_ is particularly noteworthy. His studies of singlet-triplet perturbations have provided valuable information on non-radiative transitions in molecules.

Dr. Bridger's fine international reputation rests on his pioneering research on succinyl-CoA synthetase, discovering the a and B subunits of this enzyme and their unique properties. This led him to enunciate and prove the principles of substrate synergism and catalytic cooperativity. After explicating the catalytic mechanism and role of the subunits in renaturation, he cloned the gene for the cytoplasmic precursor molecule and elucidated the mechanism for mitochondrial import. Past secretary and president of the Can. Biochem. Soc., he received its Ayerst award in 1980. He continues his leadership roles as recently elected Chairman of his Department.